Hans van Ess

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Hans van Ess (* 1962 near Frankfurt am Main ) is a German sinologist and Mongolist . His main research interests include Confucianism , Chinese historiography and Central Asian studies with reference to China.

Life

As the son of the Arabist Josef van Ess , he grew up in Tübingen . From 1983 to 1986 he studied Sinology, Turkology and Philosophy at the University of Hamburg . This was followed by studies at the Fudan University in Shanghai from 1986 to 1988. In 1992 he received his doctorate at the University of Hamburg under Hans Stumpfeldt .

From 1992 to 1995, Hans van Ess worked as a country officer at the East Asian Association in Hamburg before becoming an assistant at the Sinological Seminar at Heidelberg University . In 1998 he completed his habilitation in Hamburg and in the same year he accepted the professorship for Sinology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, which Wolfgang Bauer had previously held. Van Ess has also been President of the Max Weber Foundation since March 2015 .

In 2020 van Ess was elected to the Academy of Sciences and Literature .

His sister, Margarete van Ess , is a renowned archaeologist.

Fonts (selection)

  • Politics and Historiography in Ancient China: Pan-ma i-tung . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2014, ISBN 978-3-447-10107-3 .
  • Daoism: From Laozi until today (=  Beck'sche series . Volume 2721 ). CH Beck, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-61218-3 .
  • The 101 most important questions: China (=  Beck series . Volume 1799 ). CH Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-56808-4 .
  • Confucianism (=  Beck series . Volume 2306 ). CH Beck, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-406-48006-3 .
  • From Ch'eng I to Chu Hsi: The Doctrine of the Right Path in the tradition of the Hu family . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 3-447-04729-1 (habilitation thesis).
  • as editor: Wolfgang Bauer : History of Chinese Philosophy . CH Beck, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-406-47157-9 .
  • Politics and Scholarship in the Han Era (202 BC - 220 AD): The Old Text-New Text Controversy . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1993, ISBN 3-447-03384-3 (dissertation).

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personal data
SURNAME Ess, Hans van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sinologist and Mongolist
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main